Customer Reviews:
 Irritating flaws ruin promising game May 28, 2007
A. Clements
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
When I bought this game, I was hoping for a challenging and realistic game of international cricket.
But I soon came across two or three flaws - both in game play and functionality - which seriously harmed my enjoyment of the game.
Test cricket has been neglected. There is no option to play a test series, for example. All you can do is play a one-off exhibition match, or take part in a league. I find this really disappointing. Why exclude such a big part of cricket?
As is usually the case in these games, there is an issue with licensing and player names.
The World Cup and Champions Trophy start with real player names, but these soon turn fake when you reload a saved game. Test matches have fake names from the start.
Unfortunately, there is no editor to change the names.
Moving on to game play. When the wicket keeper receives the ball from a fielder, he'll whip off the bails and appeal for a run out - regardless of where the batsman is. My batsman was stood in his crease counting the spectators and the opposition keeper appealed for a run out!
When this happens over and over again, it really detracts from the cricket. It is ridiculous, utterly tedious, and is totally inexcusable how a game can be released with this fault. It begs the question: was this game even tested?
It is a shame because the game does have promise: for example, the graphics are crisp, the hawk eye technology is innovative, and bowlers like Shoaib Akhtar bowl in their own, different style, which is a nice touch.
The fielding controls make the game extra challenging - you have to think quickly and go for catches, and time your throw correctly and you might just force that run out.
So overall, a promising game, but with serious flaws. I have read reviews for other cricket games - including EA's Cricket 2007 - and they all seem to follow the same pattern - silly, irritating faults which haven't been ironed out, and gaping holes in functionality.
Small details can make or break a game. Why do developers continue to overlook these things? Most of these games appear before an Ashes series or the World Cup, so perhaps they just rush out what they can...
 xbox 360 demo March 8, 2007
Mr. L. S. Trott (Somerset., UK)
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
just played the demo, graphics have inproved greatly. Although the gameplay is somewhat jerky on the bowlers approach making timing difficult. fielding is also a bit more difficult now with the timing bar poping up before the ball gets to the player. Other than these small pointers the game is shaping up nicely. Fingers crossed the jerkyness will be sorted before the release
Rubbish April 8, 2007
S. Saltmarshe
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
This game is a complete waste of time.
The batting is to easy, The wicket keeper always hits the stumps for no reason (gets annoying in a test match), No urgency in batsmen and often get run out because they havent put there bat over the crease in time, And rubbish bowling... Bee lee is bowling 93mph but it looks more like 50 mph .
To be honest they have rushed it out for world cup and its a load of rubbish,
This time EA sports have kicked Codemasters ass and cricket 07 is a far better game
 Can't Wait!!!! February 17, 2007
F. Ingram (London, England)
4 out of 52 found this review helpful
This game will be the best cricket game on a console yet and the fact they are bringin out on xbox 360 excites me even more. I have an xbox 360 and i am looking forward to buying this game and enjoying the great graphics and motions of the players. I'm hopin that it will 10 times better than the previous cricket games and i'm hoping that i don't get 0-10 on my first time.
Best Cricket game ever.....(But then it would be) March 23, 2007
Mr Bojangles
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is definatly the best cricket game ever made, but you have to realise that there is no competition in the way of next gen cricket games so therefore, it easy beats any PS2 conterparts hands-down.
Firstly, gameplay. As it always is in Brain Lara games, it is a batsmans paradise, boudaries come easily and racking up 500 runs in a test match is no hard job, even on some of the harder dificulties. Bowling, however, is greatly improved, the controls and generics of bowling are esentially the same as BLIC 2005 PS2, howver, more refined. The inclusion of a autoplay mode also helps to move things along more quickly in those long test matches. However, same old un lincensed players in exhibition mode and only lincenced ICC tournaments have the real names.
Secondly graphics, these are greatly improved on the old PS2 version (as you would expect), especially in HD, the players actually look like the real thing for once. However,with the amzing graphics of Tom clancy rainbow six and call of duty 3, you would expect a little more, but a good 8/10 anyway.
Thirdly, the inclusion of xbox live makes this the first online cricket game ever. That is, if you can find anyone to play! With the inclusion of online tournoments and 20/20 games, however, that will surely attract a large crowd.
Overall, this is an excellent game which as evolved over the years into a highly refined and much more enjoyable game with many great new features. I highly reccomend this game, even if you are not a die-hard cricket fan. This is a great game to play if you are need of a bit of fun.
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